CLASS OF 1888

Dr. Clarence Aldis Hastings died December 23, 1917, at his home in Malone, N. Y., of apoplexy, after an illness of only ten hours.

Dr. Hastings was born in Malone, February 22, 1862, being the son of Clarence and Augusta (Lord) Hastings. He fitted at Franklin Academy, Malone, ana took at Dartmouth the course of the Chandler Sci-entific Department, leaving at the close of sophomore year.

After leaving college he began at once the study of medicine with Dr. Brand of Malone, continuing it at Bellevue Hospital and at the University of Vermont, obtaining his medical degree from the latter in 1889. He began practice in. that year at Trout River, N. Y., removing to East Constable in 1893, and to Malone in 1909. He acquired a large practice, to which he devoted himself faithfully, never sparing himself in his response to the calls of his patients. A year ago his health had become seriously impaired, and he spent the following winter at Jacksonville and elsewhere ir the South, returning home greatly benefited, so that he had since attended to his practice without apparent difficulty.

Dr. Hastings was a Mason of high standing and a member of the Independent Order of Foresters. He held membership in the county and state medical societies. As a citizen he was public-spirited and highly respected.

He was three times married. In 1890 he was married to Eva M., daughter of Robert Clark of Westville, N. Y., who died May 9, 1897. They had two sons, the elder of whom, Robert Clark, for some time a member of Dartmouth 1914, is now an assistant surgeon in the Canadian army, with the rank of lieutenant, and the younger, Charles Edward, was recently appointed lieutenant in the Dental Corps, U.S.A. A second marriage was to Eliza Cooley of Malone, who died in 1914. In June, 1916, he was married to Elizabeth Blackwood of Huntingdon, Que., who survives him.

Some weeks before his death Dr. Hastings had offered his services to the government as medical examiner at the army camps. This offer had been accepted, and he was awaiting an assignment.